They say that education is very important to ensure that one will get a good job in the future. That is why parents want the best for their children, so that one will be equipped with the right knowledge that he or she will use in his or her respective field of work. Knowledge alone is not enough, for one needs social skills in order to work and interact with other people, and the school being co-ed or exclusive has an effect on that skill. In the debate of learning proficiency in schools, boys and girls should have different schools because students in exclusive schools rank higher academically than those in co-ed schools, “brotherhood and sisterhood” is more evident in exclusive schools, and social interaction with the opposite sex is possible outside exclusive schools.
First of all, students from exclusive schools rank higher academically than those from co-ed schools. In a study by Edison Trickett and Penelope Trickett in comparison of students from private exclusive schools with students from private coed schools in the United States, they found out that students from exclusive schools had more positive attitude towards academics than those from coed schools. Also, even though Philippine Science High School, De La Salle Zobel, and other coed schools manage to send students to the top 4 universities in Manila, if one would look at the top 20 who passed the College entrance exams, majority of them came from exclusive schools like Ateneo HS, La Salle Greenhills, Assumption College, Poveda, among others.
Next, “brotherhood and sisterhood” is exemplified more in exclusive schools because students find it easier to “belong” to a group because they have one thing in common: gender. For example, a boy finds it easier to bond with other boys who like to play computer games or play basketball, rather than to hangout with a girl who loves writing poetry. Although students from coed schools may have “brotherhood or sisterhood” in their barkada, it is less likely because in their groups, the probability of having a barkada that is composed of boys or girls only is less likely to happen.
Lastly, since students in exclusive schools see people of the same gender most of the time in almost anything that they do, in P.E. or laboratory, among others, it is quite difficult to interact with the opposite sex – but it is not impossible. Classes can set up a soiree, a social gathering with another class from another exclusive school of the opposite gender; for example, Ateneo and Assumption. Students can also throw parties that are open to other schools. In prom or graduation balls, students can invite people from other exclusive schools of the opposite gender. School fairs, concerts, fund-raising events are possible meeting places. There are a lot of opportunities to interact with the opposite sex, not just in the 4 walls inside a classroom.
Education is very important, that’s why choosing the right school is very crucial to ensure a child’s growth. If one would pick between an exclusive school or a co-ed school, one must weigh his or her options with the given arguments regarding students from exclusive schools and those from co-ed schools.
List of references:
Wikipedia.org (n.d.) Single-sex education. Retrieved April 6, 2010, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-sex_education#Criticism
(Single-sex education”, n.d.)
Sugden, J. (December 4, 2009) A debate on co-ed education. Retrieved April 6, 2010,http://www.whyboysfail.com/2009/12/04/a-debate-on-co-ed-education/
NAASPE (n.d) Single Sex vs. Coed: the Evidence. Retrieved April 6, 2010, http://www.singlesexschools.org/research-singlesexvscoed.htm
your introduction and conclusion is good but you need to fix your paranthetical citation.
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